[neblawncare23]

You would have to take the whole drive shaft in im guessing?

 

[Aerospace Eng]

I'm not familiar with the 1025r. However, before I simply blamed the bearing, I would take a mental step back and figure out where the load is coming from. Calculation of bearing life is complicated, but even a "better" bearing won't last long if there is a fundamental problem like a slightly bent shaft, or one out of balance, or if the angles are slightly wrong.

It sounds like this is the front universal joint on the pto driveshaft? A universal joint should only ever see torque. What other bearings are there on the driveshaft?

As an aside, on my small Kubota GR2110, there aren't any intermediate bearings. Just a universal at the transmission and one at the blower or mower, depending on what you have installed. 500 hours (over 10 years use at my house, so "homeowner" usage pattern), no problems.

 

[MIDTOWNPC]

I just went and checked mine. Seems they forgot to even install the pto on mine. Good thing all we use is the plow. Dealer is going to bring us the back ordered pto in couple days. Perhaps there is a reason it was back ordered.

 

[neblawncare23]

Its not the bearing that's causing the trouble its the knuckle right behind the bearing where the shaft angles up to go trough bearing.
My dealer also told me the front PTO and bearing is back ordered as well. They are replacing that plus the entire mid mount drive shaft on mine.

 

[Aerospace Eng]

Can you post a diagram or picture of the PTO driveline?

 

[wishfull]

We have been running 52" brooms commercially for 8 years or more sweeping snow, cleaning small parking lots in spring and spring and fall yard clean ups. We have run them on a X595 JD and X748 JD's with the same h.p. as a 1series JD. Wore one broom completely out (gear box finally blew) but have never had a drive shaft bearing or knuckle problem. Are you 100% sure the drive shaft is not bent and is running true? Running with the broom lifted too high or using in too deep of snow will raise holy "h" with the drive system. Have had to kick operators butt more than once about that.

 

[JohnDeere2320]

We used a 2320 for about 6 years with the 54" front mount snow blower. The only problem we had with it in about 700 hours of snow use was we discovered the chain drive on the snow blower to be a high maintenance item. Once we discovered that chain tension should be checked and the chain greased after every event, we had good luck, and replaced the chain and sprockets every 75-100 hours. So keep an eye on the chain drive if they still use that system.

As to your problem, if by "knuckle" you mean the universal joint, I'm guessing as others pointed out you may be running it with the blower lifted too high. When lifted more than 4 inches off the ground with the pto on, it started making a nasty noise and started vibrating. It would get progressively worse the higher it was lifted. It was effectively putting more of an angle on the U joint than it was designed for which can kill the joint in short order and well as the 2 bearings. We never had a problem with the bearings or U joints, but were always careful not to lift it more than a few inches with blower engaged.

I have no clue why Deere would not design the blower to be lifted fully while it was engaged. The new 3039R we replaced it with has the 59" blower and can be lifted fully with the blower engaged.

 

[SDLandscapes VT]

mine just went last week and they did it under warranty--makes quite a racket. ~130 hours

 

[bobdabuilder]

I grease my entire machine after every snow event. Usually takes 10 hours to get over all my accounts. So machine is greased every 10 hours!

There ais no way to lubricate the sealed bearings (JD9313) and if you get more than 50 hours let us know how?